(White, 1848)

Carapace wide, finely tomentose, flattish except for the front, and the antero- and postero-lateral borders; the surface bears some ridges, of which the lower one is prominent and comes from the fourth antero-lateral tooth. The front straight with four lobules. The supraorbital border raised in the inner two-thirds, bearing one indistinct notch near the external angle.
The antero-lateral border thin with five distinct teeth excluding the external orbital angle; the first tooth separated from the external orbital angle, and the second and third teeth as well as the first tooth subequal and more or less subtruncate. The fourth and fifth teeth sharp, but the fourth more prominent than the posterior.
Chelipeds very unequal; carpus finely tomentose with an obtuse tooth at the inner angle, palm finely granulated and also tomentose. Fingers of the smaller cheliped slender and as long as, or slightly longer than palm, and their tips sharply pointed and closed.
The first and second male pleopods closely related to those of the other members of Epixanthus. (Miyake & Takeda, 1967: 298)

Type locality: Philippines.
Range: Dar es Salaam; Madagascar - Majunga, Maromandia; Seychelles; Andaman Islands (Alcock, 1898); Nicobar Islands; Mergui Archipelago (Alcock, 1898); Japan - Ishigaki-jima (Sakai, 1976a, Miyake, 1983), Iriomote-jima (Miyake & Takeda, 1967), Okukubi River, Okinawa (Shokita et al., 1998), Ginowan, Okinawa (Shokita et al., 2000); Taiwan (Lin, 1949); Philippines; Indonesia - Java; Australia - Broome (Rathbun, 1924c), Port Darwin; Fiji.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Pleocyemata
Infraorder Heterotremata
Superfamily Xanthoidea
Family Eriphiidae
Subfamily Oziinae
Genus Epixanthus
Species Epixanthus dentatus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Epixanthus dentatus White, 1847

Scientific synonyms and common names

Panopeus dentatus White, 1848a: 226. -- White, 1848b: 286. -- Adams & White, 1848: 41, pl. 11, fig. 1.
Heteropanope dentatus Stimpson, 1858a: 35.
Epithantus dilatatus de Man, 1879: 58.
Panopeus acutidens Haswell, 1882a: 542.
Epixanthus dentatus Alcock, 1898: 185. -- Rathbun, 1924c: 19. -- Sakai, 1939: 520. -- Lin, 1949: 24. -- Miyake & Takeda, 1967: 298, fig. 3g-i. -- Sakai, 1976a: 476, pl. 169, fig. 3. -- Miyake, 1983: 114, pl. 38, fig. 6. -- Crosnier, 1984b: 307(keys), figs 220-221, pl. 45E. -- Wada, 1995: 401, pl. 110, fig. 8. -- Ng, 1998c: 1104(key), 1108, fig. -- Shokita et al., 1998: 66(list). -- Shokita et al., 2000: 658(list).

Forceps crab [English]
Kanoko-sebiro-gani [Japanese]
sebiro-gani, Kanoko- [Japanese]

Adams, A. & A. White, 1848. Crustacea. Part 1. In: A. Adams (ed.), The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1843-1846, 1-32, pls 1-6. Benham & Reeve, London.

Alcock, A.W., 1898. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part 1. The Family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 67, part 2(1): 67-233.

Crosnier, A., 1984b. Familles des Carpiliidae et des Menippidae. In: Serène, R., Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures de l'Océan Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge, Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Faune Tropicale, XXIV: 299-313, figs 208-243 pls 44E-F, 45A-F, 46A-D, 47A-D, 48A-B.

de Man, J.G., 1879. On some new or imperfectly known Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Leyden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1(19): 53-73. [1879/IV]

Haswell, W.A., 1882a. On some new Australian Brachyura. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S.W., 6(3): 540-551.

Lin, C.C., 1949. A catalogue of Brachyurous Crustacea of Taiwan. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 2(1): 10-33.

Miyake, S. & M. Takeda, 1967. On some rare xanthid crabs from the Ryukyu Islands, with description of a new species. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 14(2): 293-302.

Miyake, S., 1983. Japanese Crustacean Decapods and Stomatopods in color. Vol. II. Brachyura (Crabs), i-viii, 1-277, pls 1-64. Hoikusha, Osaka. (In Japanese; second edition in 1992)

Ng, P.K.L., 1998c. Crabs. In: K.E. Carpenter & N. Volker (eds.), FAO Species Identification Guide for fishery purposes. the living marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 1. Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome: 1046-1155.

Rathbun, M.J., 1924c. Brachyura, Albuneidae and Porcellanidae. In: Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 37. Arkiv för Zoologi, 16(23): 1-33, figs 1-7, pl. 1.

Sakai, T., 1939. Studies on the crabs of Japan. IV. Brachygnatha, Brachyrhyncha, pp. 365-741, figs 1-129, pls 42-111, table 1. Yokendo Co., Tokyo.

Sakai, T., 1976a. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. (In 3 volumes: (1) English text: i-xxix, 1-773, figs 1-379, (2) Plates volume: 1-16, pls 1-251, (3) Japanese text: 1-461, figs 1-2, 3 maps.) Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo.

Shokita, S., M. Iriondo, A. Kawakami & V. Havanont, 1998. Distribution and abundance of crustaceans in the mangrove swamp of the Okukubi River, Okinawa Island. Ann. Report Interdiscipl. Res. Inst. Environ. Sci., 17: 61-71, figs 1-6, 1 photo.

Shokita, S., Y. Fujita, T. Nagai & A. Kawakami, 2000. Decapod Crustacea in Ginowan City, Okinawa Island. History of the Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture, 9: 629-658.

Stimpson, W., 1858a. Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars IV. Crustacea Cancroidea et Corystoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1858 (March), 10: 31-40.

Wada, K., 1995. Brachyura. In: S. Nishimura, Guide to seashore animals of Japan with color pictures and keys. Vol. 2: 379-418, pls 101-118. (In Japanese)

White, A., 1848a. Short Descriptions of new or little-known Decapod Crustacea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15(pt. 15, no.79) (1847): 222-228, 2 figs.

White, A., 1848b. Short Descriptions of new or little-known Decapod Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (2) 2: 282-288.

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